What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.