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

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

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.

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

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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

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

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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