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

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.