Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.

You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Misfortune comes to all men.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

If you stumble, rise up, go on.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods.

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.