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

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.

We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

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.

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

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.