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

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

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

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

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.