I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

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

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

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.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

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

The information is in the people, not in your head.

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.

The greatest success is how much impact was made

Liars corrupt knowledge, and fools pervert wisdom, but the wise hallow both.Knowledge holds the truth.

In the grounds of the château was a churchsaid to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in oldchurches.

The media's so bad, I'm gonna hit 'em as hard as I can.

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".

In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.

He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.