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.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

The light is shining on our path.

Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

If you look for problems, you will find problems; if you look for solutions, you will find solutions.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

Tell me when you want to pick it up again." "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight." "I'll do that. Lunch?

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent

The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.