What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.