There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

We learn to beat fear by doing.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball