If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose..

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 ….

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and ….

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world..

Literature is my Utopia.

My friends have made the story of my life..

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 have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart whic….

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it..

Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the sh….

Your success & happiness lies in you..

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity..

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness..

No nation is wise enough to rule another..

To get Congress to do anything..

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as me….

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines….

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor..

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision..

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….

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it i….