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.

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.

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 first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

I pray and wait for an answer in pictures, words or ideas.

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.