Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.