The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian

The ultimate success of Masonry depends on the intelligence of her disciples.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

Life is short and love is over in the morning.