"Children learn to care by experiencing good care. They come to know the blessings of gentleness, or sympathy, of patience and kindness, of support and backing first through the way in which they themselves are treated."

“If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.”

“Life is about timing.”

“I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.”

“I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.”

“It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.”

Source : "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]”

“Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.”

“Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.”