“The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back....” — T. E. Lawrence Quote

“The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.”

“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”

“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.”

“What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.”

“It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between opinions and to facilitate dialogue and understanding.”

“The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.”