It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.

At 'Price Is Right,' people feel so safe there and loved. And if you can't jump around on 'Price is Right,' then you can't jump around anywhere, you know?

You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.