"Timur undertook many of his campaigns in the interest of religious order, and we find that almost all mentions of Sharia in [Nizan al-Dim] Shami's Zafarnameh occur as justification for Timur's conquests. His campaigns against the kings of Georgia, the Shi'ite sayyids of Amul in Mazandaran [a province in northern Iran], and the non-Muslim populations on his route to India were all ostensibly taken for the preservation of Sharia; and Shami even invoked the sanctions of religion in explaining Timur's campaigns against the Ottomans. Before beginning his campaigns in the Middle East, Timur took care to get the blessing of Muslim men of religion."

"Khamenei is not our leader but the leader of the Yemenis and the Palestinians... He has not said that our people are a red line; our people must not confront such a crisis and the prices should not rise... I am not a priority for Khamenei. His priority is Yemen and Palestine."

"Both the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic are dead."

"Oh, isn't there anything for the benefit of our nation in Quran the Great, in the Nahj al-Balaghah, in the movement of Imam Hussein, in the peace of Imam Hassan, in the 250-year history of the Ahl al-Bayt? And anything that has no benefit for the people, even Islam, I am a disbeliever in it!"

"You (Iranian authorities) are not garrison (commanders), (but) you are responsible for the livelihood of a country of 80 million people."

"Iranian Revolution is the symbol of the denial of freedom and republic."

"Gaza has become the priority of the state... the government does not want to solve the domestic problems... with this order, the downfall of the regime will be certain... Iranian's priority is not shawls and scarves but corruption and poverty."

"Pan-Turkism is an amalgam of ignorance and idiocy"

"It was said that I deal with resources with violence. This is while in European countries they tell students why you didn't torture the text? Why didn't you take it out?"

"To me the heart is a sheikh who teaches me, And I am the child who understands his language. When I bow my head I pay him my fee, When I put my head on my knees I attend his school. Not on every knee his school can be found; Not all moments are tablets to receive his words. Not every sea hides shells, Not every drop is an April shower. Kneeling down is only a school, Like Noah's Ark, to him Whose sorrow is a frothing Flood, To whom Ararat is a heaven. However, to him who, once, Enters this school be kneeling down, The Ararat will not be higher than his ankle-bone, The Flood will not reach his shank. No one qualifies for this school Unless he has a sorrow so great that, With each breath he inhales, four Floods Invade the four elements of his body. The school of kneeling down is meant Especially for those men who, being lions, Like a dog shy away behind a knee From all the agitation among men."

"Do you know what I benefitted from this world? Nothing And what I gained from the days of life? Nothing I am a candle of wisdom; but when extinguished, nothing I am the cup of Jamshid; but when broken nothing"

"The bird that sings the song of pain is love The courier who knows the tongue of the Unseen is love The existence that call you to nonexistence is love And that which redeems you from you is love"