Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.

As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.

O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.

Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak thugs murdered and tortured opponents of the Shah? How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.