In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.

Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality.

A smile is a humble hidden treasure everyman has been endowed with that does not reveal itself until it is called for.

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

I think there's no question Comey abused power.

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.