My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.