Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

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.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.