We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.

It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.