I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.