I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

Stand firm in faith.

The map showed human places I'd never heard of - places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn't theirs to claim.

There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.