You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

I'm not a religious person at all.

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.