All of life is a foreign country.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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

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

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

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

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