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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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

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.

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

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.