“We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .”

Nature is a petrified magic city.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.

Character is perfectly educated will.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.

Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.

I can’t cultivate a relationship with my child if it’s between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, ‘This is not going to work.’ It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.