Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

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.

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh?

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

Modeling isn't for the faint of heart, you have to really want it and work hard for it.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.