"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

"I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

"To shrug."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"Mr. Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders-what would you tell him to do?"
"I . . . don't know. What . . . could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"
Enter the territory of monotheism,
Where there's no ism but god!

به مملکت توحید وارد شو !
آنجا که جز خدا اصالتی نیست!ا
"
— Mohammad Hossein Khosh Bayan (If There's No God اگر خدا نباشد)

"We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers."
— William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)

"و در آخر قیل و قال، حقیقتی ماند ،نه از جنس قیل نه از جنس قال"
— Mohammad Hossein Khosh Bayan

"در امواج سکوت
از تلاطم زمان
واندر حیرت مکان
فبای الائ ربکما تکذبان

"
— Mohammad Hossein Khosh Bayan