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

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

Regard ye the world as a man’s body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.

The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

I am a firm believer in if you can’t get it the old fashioned way, you don’t need it.