"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."

"We mortals sometimes cut a pitiable figure in our attempts at display. We may be sure of our own merits, ye…"

"To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal:"

"Since the Persian monarchy began some 2550 years ago, Iran has had more than 350 kings. No fewer than half …"

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

"...record numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, the sweetness is the light at the end of the tunne…"

"Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death."