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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

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

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.