I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue

When I had got my notes all written out I thought I'd polish it off in two summers, but it took me twenty-seven years