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

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

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

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

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.