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

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.