I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
Helen KellerI, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Helen KellerMilitarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
Helen KellerReality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Helen KellerWhat do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Helen KellerChildren who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.
Helen Keller