I can, therefore I am.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
Wherever you are - be all there.
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.