Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

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.

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.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

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

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

If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.

O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.

One flower makes no garland.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

It's official: cyber terror is the new yellowcake uranium.

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.