A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

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

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

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.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

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.

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