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.

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

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.