I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.

Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.

Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.

Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.