An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

The busy snoops like us can leave no stone unturned, " Alma said.

Many Christians have no understanding of God’s fatherhood

Your spikes have gone floppy.

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.

I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.