The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.