Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Drifting away from one’s culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.