There's only one story, the story of your life.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.