Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.