The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
You never know what motivates you.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.