Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

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

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.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.