When a person is a light sleeper, one single touch will awake him, if he sleeps heavily, then one must awake him by shaking him... if even this will not awake the sleeper we will then have to use dynamite.

You must let the children study that which they like best. If your daughter loves art, she can devote her time to it and surely she will succeed.

The greatest need of Europe is the organization of a European congress in which the delegates of various powers may discuss seriously the possibility of immediate, concurrent disarmament

Under all circumstances, I am happy and well. I am never unwell. The body of man is the result of the composition of the elements and these elements are constantly at war with each other.

I am trying to make amends for the past. I am devoting all my time to the Oriental friends.

When one goes out to teach he should think of all these things. He must be prepared at all times for whatever comes in the path of God.

I consider him [Tolstoi] a Bahá'í, a real Bahá'í, because he lived and acted in accord with the good-pleasure of Bahá'u'lláh

Be thou kind to all mankind. Try thy utmost to alleviate their burdens. Enlighten the minds with the light of knowledge.

Tell me how is the condition of Teaching? Do the believers Teach? This is that which the Blessed Perfection has required

All the believers of God must be teachers; each individual Bahá'í must know how to deliver the Message of the Kingdom.

Man must be freed from every material tie... Praising one's self is the sign of selfishness. Commanding others is not the passport to the realm of spiritual progress

A person must be rapid in motion and not slow and tortoise-like. You see, I take always Khosro and Mirza Ahmad with me, because they move rapidly... Train yourselves to be always in time no matter where you are.

They mean the same. It is one reality. The names are different. We must consider it according to its use.

That is passed now. An arrow that has been shot does not return to the bow... That rests with the delegates to the Convention, delegates only - not strangers. The Convention is like a parliament.

Once, when I lived in Baghdad, I was invited to the house of a poor thorn-picker. In Baghdad the heat is greater even than in Syria

The true, liberal, religious spirit is more in evidence in America…. The Baha'is are a community of cooperative servants, they have no leader. Their only leader is God.

I have planted the Seeds in America. You must nurture them and care for them.

This world is a theatre. It is not an eternal world: it is a stage where every kind of play is enacted.

They come from other minds: they are reflected. One should not become a mirror for them--to reflect them, neither should one try to control them

we must look upon every human being we saw as a letter from the Beloved to us.... No matter how blotted, blurred, torn or soiled that letter appears to be

Jede Krankheit fasse zuerst als Läuterung auf und bedenke, daß in jeder Krankheit der Segen der Einsamkeit liegt

There is a power in this Cause, a mysterious power, far, far, far away from the ken of men and angels

The Bahá’í message is a call to religious unity and not an invitation to a new religion, not a new path to immortality.

No nation ever advances beyond the point of progress to which its women have attained; the two legs belong to the one body.