Helen Keller

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or aw...”

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”

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

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

“Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

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

“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will f...”

“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.”

“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole...”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”