I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

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

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.