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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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

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

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