What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

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

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.