The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!