A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!

Those guards are going to be all sorts of pissed when they find out they've been following a bunny rabbit.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I absolutely love being a mother.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.