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.

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.

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

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.

To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour

Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.

Home is where the heart is. No matter how your heart lives. Inside your heart where love is.That's where you've got to make yourself at home