Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. - Helen Keller

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

You are amazed at all the things you know which are not on the examination paper.

Since I have abandoned the idea of regular lessons, I find that Helen learns much faster. I am convinced that the time spent by the teacher digging out of the child what she has put into him, for the sake of satisfying herself that it has taken root, is so much time thrown away. It's much better, I think, to assume that the child is doing his part, and that the seed you have sown will bear fruit in due time.