Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

What could you achieve if you took the energy you spend on things you cannot change and invested it in things you can.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.