Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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

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.

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

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”