I support good relations with other countries. A policy of détente will be a central issue for me.

I'm worried about living in a country which in that reaching is right of people who don't run and running is for people who never will reach.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

I believe that I can improve things.

Iran has always had a good relationship with Europe. The Middle East is Europe's neighbor, and we are a strong player in this region.

The more united we are on the central questions of policy, the better it will be for the future of our country.

The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?

Am I in trouble? He chortled, "well, a bunch of not-so-friendly thugs were waiting to ambush you and blow up your apartment. If that doesn't qualify as trouble, I don't know what does.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.