Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.