Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

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

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.

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

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.