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.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

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

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.