All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

to find those great stories of wonder found within various cultures that teach us something about human experience.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.