We should respect all people.

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.