To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Well done is better than well said.
Only the educated are free.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
After a storm comes a calm.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.