An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.