The inferiority of women is man-made.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.