Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

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 simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.