The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

The Glory of this life is in viewing it as eternal.

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don't really have a problem with any of it.

The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

All the basic information should be in the object itself.

Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.