Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
Helen KellerThe highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen KellerBelieve, 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.
Helen KellerThe heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
Helen KellerI do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen KellerOur democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?
Helen Keller