Shah Is A Kind Of Magic Word

Contrary To What Many Believed, My Father Was Kind And Tenderhearted, Especially Towards His Family. His Forbidding Sternness Seemed To Melt Into Love, Kindness, And Easy Familiarity When He Was With Us. Especially With Me, His Acknowledged Successor To The Throne, He Would Play Lightheartedly. When We Were Alone Together, He Would Sing Me Little Songs; I Don't Remember His Ever Doing This In Front Of Others, But When Only The Two Of Us Were There, He Would Often Sing To Me.

Nobody Can Influence Me, Nobody. Still Less A Woman. Women Are Important In A Man's Life Only If They're Beautiful And Charming And Keep Their Femininity.

How Can You Hope To Build Up A Nation By Fragmenting Its Politics Into Opposing Camps? Whatever One Group Builds, The Other Will Endeavour To Destroy.

The Saudis Have Never Shown Any Respect For Human Rights, Either Now Or In The Past. Even A Petty Burglar Faces Having One Of His Hands Chopped Off. The Liberal Press In America Prefers To Ignore All This, Although They Don't Hesitate To Blacken The Reputation Of Iran.

I Will Frankly Confess That I Was Convinced That God Had Ordained Me To Do Certain Things For The Service Of My Nation, Things That Perhaps Could Not Be Done By Anyone Else. In Whatever I Have Done And Whatever I Do In The Future, I Consider Myself As An Agent Of The Will Of God.