“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.”

“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 hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.”

“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.”

“Fear” in the biblical sense…includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.”

“1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.”

“Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.”