Helen Keller

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.