Never complain and never explain.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Well done is better than well said.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.