You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.