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

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

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.

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.

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

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

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