My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.