Mohammed Jawad Ali

“The 18th century Sufi Shaykh Ali Al-Jamal, said, "If people knew how many secrets and benefits are to be found in need, they would have no other need than to be in need.”
― Michael Sugich, Signs on the Horizons: Meetings with Men of Knowledge and Illumination

“When the Libyan uprising was first gathering steam, Qaddafi dismissed the protestors as “rats” and vowed to eradicate them with unmatched fury. Six months later, dirty and on the run, he was found by Libyan fighters hiding in a sewer pipe near the city of Sirte, begging his captors not to shoot him. They did not oblige. Tellingly, in a sign of broader trends across the region, on the day that Qaddafi’s palace in Tripoli fell to the rebels, the flag that was hoisted atop the building was that of Qatar, a sign, no doubt, of the tiny sheikhdom’s surprising reach and power. Qatar’s flag was soon replaced by Libya’s own new flag. But the symbolic importance of seeing the Qatari flag over Qaddafi’s one-time headquarters was hard to miss. A new regional power had risen.”
― Mehran Kamrava, Qatar: Small State, Big Politics

“I think what I loved about America—and still do—is the fact that it remains one of the places where if you had merit or capability, you had a chance to make it happen. It may not be that everybody with capability becomes a great success, but anybody willing to work hard and to be diligent has a fair chance. The United States has less of an issue of who you are, whose son you are, how rich you are as a requirement for success. So, you can be successful from the street, if you had the capability.”
― Peter Casey, The Story of TATA: 1868 to 2021

“Americans have less of an issue about who you are, whose son you are and how much family money you have. In the US, I learned, you can be successful from the street, if you have the capability.”
― Peter Casey, The Story of TATA: 1868 to 2021