The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

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

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.