Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.