The Guardian worked twenty hours a day and slept only four hours

One day he [Shoghi Effendi] told us, "I work twenty hours a day and sleep only four hours." 

- Ali-Akbar Furutan  (Notes of his pilgrimage in 1941; published in ‘Hand of the Cause of God Furutan’, by Iran Furutan Muhajir)

The French orientalist Monsieur Nicolas

The Guardian told us about Monsieur Nicolas, the French orientalist, who greatly admired the Bab but imagined that the Baha'is undervalued His station. Hearing that Monsieur Nicolas was very disturbed about this, the Guardian sent him a copy of" The Dawn-Breakers." Monsieur Nicolas expressed his gratitude and his admiration of the book. 

- Ali-Akbar Furutan  (Notes of his pilgrimage in 1941; published in ‘Hand of the Cause of God Furutan’, by Iran Furutan Muhajir)

Three important qualifications of a Baha’i pioneer

He [Shoghi Effendi] described three important qualifications of a pioneer: to arise transported by divine love; to trust wholly in the Blessed Beauty; and to demonstrate absolute perseverance… Perseverance, he told us, in itself is the remover of all obstacles. 

- Ali-Akbar Furutan  (Notes of his pilgrimage in 1941; published in ‘Hand of the Cause of God Furutan’, by Iran Furutan Muhajir)