The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.