Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

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

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

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

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.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.