Look the world straight in the eye. - Helen Keller

It were better far to sail forever in the night of blindness, with sense and feeling and mind, than to be thus content with the mere act of seeing. They have the sunset, the morning skies, the purple of distant hills, yet their souls voyage through this enchanted world with a barren stare.

... i feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers. all the best of me belong to her, there is not a talent or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not awakened by her loving touch....

about her teacher: ann sulivan.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.