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

The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

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

At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.

We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.