Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

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

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.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

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

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.