Helen Keller

"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."

"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 have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."

"A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:."

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

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

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

"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."

"When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

"Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: 'Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.'."

"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."