Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

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.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.