“The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.”

“Freemasonry is a spiritual practice that good men of every spiritual practice can agree upon.”

“Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.”

“Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.”

“Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.”

“When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.”

“True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.”

“Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.”

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would...”

“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majo...”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”