I would love to be a corporate leader.

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.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Love takes your choices away.

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.