We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

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.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Spaghetti is no food for fighters.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.