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

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

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.

When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

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.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.