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.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

I do desire we may be better strangers.