Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
It's always too early to quit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Who seeks shall find.
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.