“The light of Freemasonry is not in the eye but in the heart, not in the intellect but in the soul.”

“A Mason is a person who is a free thinker, who does not accept anything without examination, who tests everything by his own reason, and who follows the dictates of his own conscience.”

“The symbol of the All-Seeing Eye in the Masonic Lodge represents the great principle of divine providence, the ultimate moral and spiritual guide for mankind.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“I have been a Freemason for many years and am proud of it.”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“I am not a great believer in the philosophy that says that a nation is not able to face its problems because it has not had a period of time of great change. In the course of our history we have had many great changes and we have learned how to adapt to them.”

“In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

“The Grand Architect of the Universe, the Great Creator, is always at work in the world. Freemasonry, by its teachings, helps us to understand and appreciate His handiwork.”

“My chief regret in life is that I have not been able to save more of my friends from the paths of error.”

“To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“The more I study, the more I am amazed at the work of the Creator.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“I have always considered that my chief merit lay in having had the good fortune to have had good teachers and to have had the opportunity to observe the working of the best engines.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“I’m not in this for money. I’m in it for the art.”

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”

“I believe in the American dream because I have lived it.”

“The things that make you a man are the things that make you uncomfortable.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“It is not enough to possess a knowledge of the truth; it is necessary to act upon it.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”

“The divine is in the details.”

“Music, even in situations of the greatest gloom, will always help us to remember the divine.”

“The greatest composer does not sit down to write a piece of music without having an idea of the whole.”