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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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

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

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.