If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Guitar is great for a certain thing but a piano is so much more expansive.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up to Ayrshire and visit relations in a place called Dalry.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

Just being able to grind day in and day out. You have to be a different kind of person to not just do the workouts but to not make money for months at a time.

The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

I want to work on projects that I feel passionate about and do things that are fun and challenging. I would love to do a live musical. I'm not interested in doing the same thing over and over or the fame and exposure that comes with it. When people keep doing that, they just end up doing the same dumb stuff again and again.

Friends confront each other sometimes and sometimes the friendship lasts and sometimes it doesnt.

I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

I think Forever 21 is a great way to get in on the trends without spending a lot of money.

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.