What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

Look the world straight in the eye.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.