At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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.

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

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

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

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

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

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