The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

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

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.