Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

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.

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

An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

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

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.