So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.