You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

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.

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.

What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.