I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?

I do believe that the Iranians are a good neighbour. The Iranians have supported the people of Yemen.

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.

If adrenaline was a catalyst for strength then hope was the catalyst for endurance.

Past is a Lesson, Present is a Mission, Future is a Vision.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

By thinking big, we can transform our world.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.