When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

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

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

Strangers are an endangered species.

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.

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

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

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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.