It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

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

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

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.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

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