. . . 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.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

Age affects how people experience time.

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.

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.

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.

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