If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.