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 Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

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.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

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

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

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.