I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

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.

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Keep your eye on the prey

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.