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

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

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.

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

The one who comes to know [the eternal truth], will awaken. The one who is wrongly believing will not awaken.

If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work.

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!