We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take ….

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare..

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it..

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others throu….

I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true….

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I ….

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance..

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' '….

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all..

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

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places..

I have found life so beautiful..

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause..

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived..

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision..

Be happy. Talk happiness..

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves..

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system..

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 lie….

There's only one story, the story of your life..