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.

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

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

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

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

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