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

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?

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.

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

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.

There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

When you soar like an eagle you attract the hunters.

As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad.

Show people, don’t tell people.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.

Will I ever again doubt that miracles exist? Not after giving birth to my daughter at 47 without fertility treatments, after surviving breast cancer.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

You are the light of the world. Shine and darkness will disappear.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

I don't naturally have a good metabolism, but I am lucky in that I am naturally drawn to healthy food.

I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.