“Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.”

Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding…

O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

The world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind’s ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System – the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony… So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind…

My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing

My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.