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

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.

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

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

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.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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.

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

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.

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