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

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

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

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.

I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

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.