There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.