The inferiority of women is man-made.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

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

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.