Things must be felt with the heart.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

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!

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.