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.

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?

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.

In the beginning Man created God and in the image of Man created he him.

No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.