At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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

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

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

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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.

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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