I need no financial aid. I fight the Shah with a pen and a sheet of paper and, if I needed help, my nation will help me.

I would rather be called servant than leader. Leadership is not the issue, service is topical. Islam has made it incumbent on us to serve.

A child's first school is the mother's lap.

I am a brother to the people of Iran and regard myself as a servant and soldier of them.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

I savarankiskos Lietuvos valstybes ideja as ziuriu neigiamai. As manau, kad tai nerealu.