The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
I can, therefore I am.
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.