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.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.