With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.

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.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.

My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.

I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?