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

Strangers are an endangered species.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.