“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.”

“Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs. Whether the anger is turned inward on the self, or outward towards others, dreadful destruction results.”

“إن فهم البعد الثقافي على أنه أكثر الاتصالات تعقيداً على جميع المستويات, سيكون غير ضروري فعلياً لو لم يكن ذلك لأمرين: انشغالنا المتزايد بالشعوب في كل أجزاء العالم, وتمازج الثقافات الخاصة في بلدنا حيث يتدفق أشخاص من مناطق ريفية وبلدان أجنبية إلى داخل مدننا بأعداد كبيرة.”

“If I could retrieve my words I would, grab them out of the sky and hide them where they can't be seen.”

“Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.”

“Clothes hide a multitude of sins.”