I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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

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

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

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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.

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.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.