As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

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.

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.