Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.

It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You Can Be More Alone and if You Want to Connect, It Makes Easier to Connect.

When my children were little, always I had to explain things.Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.