My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be c….

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind..

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia..

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it..

I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause ….

We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand e….

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe a….

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries..

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the mess….

Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanatic….

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation..

At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York..

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, ….

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old..

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with dee….

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for ….

Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, v….

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays ….

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland..

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's str….