Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

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.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea