In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

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.

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.

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

When I want to reward myself I get a relaxing massage.

welcome to the FAYZ. Wherever, whenever or whyever that is