» 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.
» We 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.
» Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
» When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
» Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
» There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
» Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
» My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
» What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
» Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.