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

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

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

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.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.