You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.