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

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.

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.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

You know what the secret to a happy life is?""No regrets. Just live in the moment.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.

Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.