In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.

Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality.

Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.

I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

I couldn't do anything without faith. I couldn't open up my eyes, I couldn't walk, I couldn't speak, I couldn't sing.

Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.

Each atom in Nature is the body of a virginal sparkle that incessantly evolves through time and space.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.