The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

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

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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.

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

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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

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

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.