If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.

The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.

Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.

The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.

I miss those times when I hadn't a clue.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.