No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.