Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.