“The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.”

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society – the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

My responsibility is to lead youth, no matter what the circumstances are.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

It’s our unlimited power to create and love in any circumstance that makes the biggest difference in the quality of our lives.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.