Strangers are an endangered species.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

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.

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

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.