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

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

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

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

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

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.