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.

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

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

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

If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

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.