At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.