Helen Keller

I said, 'I think God is in the air.' My teacher said, 'Yes, and in the water, and in the earth, and in you.'

I have been in men's prisons and have seen much that is evil and much that is good.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my own ship.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I often wonder if the hand of the sculptor is not more expressive than the voice of the singer.

I am not a little girl anymore. I am a woman, and I have a right to my own life.

I found that the more I had to say, the more I wished to say it.

The public must learn that the blind man is neither a genius nor a mountebank. He has a right to his share in the work of the world.

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.

The finest and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly endures.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I had no idea what I was to do with my life, but I was sure that I wanted to do something.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.

I believe that all through the ages there have been men and women who have been deaf and blind, who have had magnificent souls and who have lived lives of quiet heroism.