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

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.

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!

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

In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your ‘joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

The freedom that money gives you makes you… well, I wouldn’t say happy, but I’d say it gives you diversity.

I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God’s help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn’t ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.