Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.