We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always aca….

To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordan….

When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to ….

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves..

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….

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

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account..

No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free ..

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of other….

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

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself..

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a ri….

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change..

... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes….

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….

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guard….

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

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

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 ….