To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.