materialism

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

In the distance Richard could see the skyscrapers of Los Angeles rising out of the ocean; barnacle crusted concrete and steel emerging from crashing waves. Once a symbol of economic might, they were now a macabre monument to the mortality of man.

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.