For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

Israel must be wiped off the map.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.

We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

Their [Phoenix] audience wasn't into us at all. The way most of the venues worked was there was no alcohol on the floor so usually during our set most people were in the lobby getting their drink on.

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.