I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
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.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.