Iran has always had a good relationship with Europe. The Middle East is Europe's neighbor, and we are a strong player in this region.

I'm worried about living in a country which in that reaching is right of people who don't run and running is for people who never will reach.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

I believe that I can improve things.

I support good relations with other countries. A policy of détente will be a central issue for me.

The more united we are on the central questions of policy, the better it will be for the future of our country.

The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.

My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

Monsters have the worst taste in women.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.