In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

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.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.