We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

Israel must be wiped off the map.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.

We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

Love makes a happy life.

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.

It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

To win, I'd run over Joe's mom too.

The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.

Truth is pure awareness.

All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.