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.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

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

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.