As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.