Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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.
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.