Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

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

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

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.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.