If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.