Strangers are an endangered species.

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.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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