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

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.