It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

The most beautiful people are all in the library.

When time stops, matter stops.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.