It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.