Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

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

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.