The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.