A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

If God gives you an assignment, He will also supply the strength to carry itOut

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

Prana is more powerful than just about anything - food, exercise, skin creams, and Spanx.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

I never say never about anything.

Easy comfort isn't comforting

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

Just try to make people happy.