Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.

We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

I underestimated your laziness.” “It’s pronounced intelligence, Kirk.

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

I really love the festival circuit.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]