Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.