I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Most of the people who attempt to draw back the success of the world are those who don’t care about anything. They live life every day without asking why.

Some wounds are so deep, that if you were to reach in their depth, you wouldn't find a way back.

Comment sections on the internet is like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like nonsense and it's ugly to look at.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

I am not a monster, I am just a man.

Gentlemen, start your engines!

I'm gonna take a patato chip! AND eat it!