The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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!

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.