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 beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

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.

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

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.