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

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.