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.

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.

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.

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

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

Age affects how people experience time.

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.