"To know oneself is to disbelieve in utopia."

"Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear."

"And they say, they always say the same thing. They say "Your appointment is at four," and it's never at four! You go down there at four and you have to wait in that waiting room with all the coughers …"

"That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge."

"We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones."