If it is not important for you, how can it be important for others?

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.

Show me where your priorities lie and I will show you who you honor…

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then—probably—thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?