No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.