What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

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.

You tend to write because your heart holds million unspoken words, writing is your only way to heal your own soul!

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

I always had good students.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.