This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

I am worth the effort of creating a blissful life. I choose to care for myself like a treasured lover. I love myself.

Burn, burn, burn to become the light, to enlighten the whole world.

Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

The more a man judges, the less he loves

The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.

I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.