Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

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

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.