Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Thank God for His daily blessings.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

I want to be seen as a classic model.

Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.