Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

Boredom: the desire for desires.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?