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

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

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.

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

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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