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.

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.