Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

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.

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

When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

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

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.