You can't listen to the news. You have to go with the facts. You need to use a logical approach and have the discipline to apply it. You must be able to control your emotions.

It's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning; it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system.

Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.

The only thing permanent is change.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.