THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Opposition is true friendship.

Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

Obamacare is leaving. Millions of people have already lost the plan that they liked.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.