If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from...

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.

Japan, not only a mega - busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old...

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no...

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

"The culture of power versus the power of culture," he quoted. "One side always loses."

The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.

Nim looked aghast. Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No - it's Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia. Oh, no, Nim, Vesper said. You can't fall for one of the...

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up...

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's...

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal;...

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

We go back to the Dark Ages! The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would just take a few thousand big shells and gas bombs to wipe out all the eager young men, and all...

Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the...

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer,...

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift...