I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.