I never fight, except against difficulties.
Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
My friends have made the story of my life.
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
Smell is a fallen angel.
We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
I have found life so beautiful.
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.
Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.
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