“in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.”

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That’s why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers’ expense, must end.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.

Hindu terrorism’ is not even a word. By linking Hindu with terrorism, Congress has disrespected the country’s culture, tradition, and legacy. It should apologise to the nation.

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

I’m a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.