There is nothing more beautiful, I think, than the evanescent fleeting images and sentiments presented by a language one is just becoming familiar wi… - Helen Keller

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

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

We have found that our great philosophers and our great men of action are optimists. So, too, our most potent men of letters have been optimists in their books and in their lives. No pessimist ever won an audience commensurately wide with his genius, and many optimistic writers have been read and admired out of all measure to their talents, simply because they wrote of the sunlit side of life.