Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.

I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

How much you groom somebody else is more important than who grooms you.

[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.