This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

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

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

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