If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

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 African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.

How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.

Forgiveness has very little do with the person. It's for your own healing.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.