The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

You cannot play with fire.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.