"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."

"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."

"War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."

"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built."

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."