I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

Ideas without action are useless.

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.