I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

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

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

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.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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