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

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.