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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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

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

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Strangers are an endangered species.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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

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