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

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.

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.

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

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.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Would you care for something to drink?” “Is it poisoned?” “It’s Saturday,” I said. “We only serve poison during the week.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.