Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.