I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience..

The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success..

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such..

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

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….

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 ….

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

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they….

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere..

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

I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes.

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

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

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

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

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other..

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

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….

True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind..

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….