Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

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.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.