All of life is a foreign country.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

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.

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

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

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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.