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

"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."

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

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