I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Open your mind before you open your mouth

I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.