I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars.

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.