Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.