If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.