I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

Get matured or call yourself a grandparent. Age never revised. Childish is not an excuse.

Being a positive person doesn't mean you never have negative thoughts. It just means you don't allow them space to take root and grow to control your life.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Obviously being relaxed doesn't mean that you make no effort.