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.

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.

Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

It's a great sense of accomplishment when you can take something and really think it's really tough, and then all of a sudden you conquer it. That makes you feel pretty good.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.