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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes you like to keep things bottled up, but that is not the best policy.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

You can't truly hate someone you've loved. You can only hurt.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.