It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

I never fight, except against difficulties.