“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

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.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.