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

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.

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

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

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

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.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.