Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

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.

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.

Your obstacles are always counting on you to be fearful and doubtful because those are their only chances of defeating you.

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

The business of business is people.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.