Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

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.

The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Crying is good for the soul, or so they say.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

You have to develop a very thick skin.

Just know that if you want to be a boxer you're going to get your face beaten constantly but then you may end up being a Mayweather or an Ali at the end of the day.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees...

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

I wanted to be a painter.

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.