The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.