“The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.”

There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.

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.

If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?

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

Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

But to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites.

Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful.

To find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainmen

When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained here.

Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed.

But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy’s doubts is invincible.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Not yet is not no. It is still possible that tomorrow will be more precious than yesterday.

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.