We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

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.

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

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

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God.

What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.