Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
Democracy is the best revenge.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception.
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.
Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen.
I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). . . . I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.