Strangers are an endangered species.

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

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.