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.

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.

People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

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

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.

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