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

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.

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

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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.