We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

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.

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

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

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

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.