Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Believe in yourself.Carve your own path.Build your own dreams.Be your own hero.

Here’s a fact: Some people want to live moreThan others do.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].

I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.