There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.

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

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

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.

The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

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