I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

No two snowflakes are alike.