Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.

In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.

When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.