“Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.”

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

Let us be such as help the life of the future.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.

Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.

By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!

When you are in doubt abstain.

He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Let us honor the Holy Ghost.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.