Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

Some people are incapable of judging others. Why? Because they are to busy judging their own insecurities

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.

But Quinn held the fuzzy handcuffs in his hands, looking them over closely, and he smiled. “Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.