Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

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

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

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