My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Everyone's immortal until they're not.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else

The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

I believe that, we're better when we're moving forward. We're stronger together, so that's what I'm going to be doing.

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

The Divorce, it's just like any performance that's given where I really just completely lost myself in that life.