Know or listen to those who know.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.