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I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.