To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

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

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.