If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

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.

We often look outside to find our hero when there is one inside of each of us. Be your own hero today.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.