What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.

Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

Events are less important than our responses to them.

The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.