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

• It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
• 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.
• Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
• 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.
• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
• True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.