The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

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.

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

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

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

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.