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.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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