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.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.