Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

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