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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

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.

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.