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

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.

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.

Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

Anything you can do, I can do meta

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.