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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

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

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

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

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