The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.