In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way--at least initially.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

Id just like to prove to myself that Im all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. Id also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.