Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. —Henry Miller

While Prince Reza believes that receiving financial aid from foreign governments is not justifiable and against his interest, the opposition groups campaigning against the Islamic Republic may make their own decision on the case.—response to letter addressed to President Trump

Iran is pulling people out of Syria, but they can frankly do whatever they want there.—President Trump

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. —Walt Whitman

Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Outrageous threat in thousands of years. Climate change. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.—David Attenborough

"Tunisia is a civil country that is based on three elements: Citizenship, the will of the people, and the supremacy of law,” and that “the rights and duties of Tunisian men and women are equal, and that the state is committed to defending women’s rights and works on supporting and developing them."—President Beji Caid Essebsi

As a child, I had two visions: one when I was five and one when I was six. The first time, I saw our Prophet Ali, he who, according to our religion, disappeared to return the day he would save the world. I had an accident: I fell against a rock. And he saved me: He placed himself between me and the rock. I know because I saw him. And not in a dream: in reality. Material reality, if you see what I mean. I alone saw him.—Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

When animals are crossing a ford, if the one in front goes crookedly, all the others go crookedly. So too, among human beings, when the leader behaves unrighteously, other people behave unrighteously. If the leader is unrighteous, the entire country is miserable.—Buddha Shakyamuni

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.. Unfortunately, it might also be our last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.—Stephen Hawking

We are very close to the point when unlike the KGB and unlike the Catholic Church, Facebook or Google will be able to understand you better than you understand yourself because they will have the data, they will have the biological knowledge and they will have the computing power necessary to understand exactly how you feel and why you feel the way that you feel.—Historian Yuval Noah Harari