The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision.

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.

I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.

If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.

Those who waste time eventually become wasted

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.