“Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.”

I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.

So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

Let’s be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let’s make of our lips a censer of the virtues.

Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all… Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray!

This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both

May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind

The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust,

The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. … so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

There is no contradiction between true religion and science

The more ye persevere in this most important task, the more will ye witness the confirmations of God, to such a degree that ye yourselves will be astonished.

If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.

Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul.

Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals

If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can’t be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock n’ roll.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.