I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying and doing everything. I feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake. Even while he utters his cynical wisdom in an indescribably droll voice, he makes you feel that his heart is a tender Iliad of human sympathy.


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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You h...
HELEN KELLER
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or tha...
HELEN KELLER
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...
HELEN KELLER
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's...
HELEN KELLER
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word f...
HELEN KELLER
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days d...
HELEN KELLER
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my ...
HELEN KELLER
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk thro...
HELEN KELLER
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
HELEN KELLER
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...
HELEN KELLER
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
HELEN KELLER
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
HELEN KELLER
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincere...
HELEN KELLER
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you pati...
HELEN KELLER
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
HELEN KELLER
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of ...
HELEN KELLER
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You h...
HELEN KELLER
I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
HELEN KELLER
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my ...
HELEN KELLER
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
HELEN KELLER
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always ...
HELEN KELLER
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part ...
HELEN KELLER
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have li...
HELEN KELLER
I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I fe...
HELEN KELLER
Literature is my utopia.
HELEN KELLER
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...
HELEN KELLER
We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king...
HELEN KELLER
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you pat...
HELEN KELLER
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can...
HELEN KELLER
There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret th...
HELEN KELLER
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new ...
HELEN KELLER
No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of natur...
HELEN KELLER
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it
HELEN KELLER
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because...
HELEN KELLER
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I c...
HELEN KELLER
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough
HELEN KELLER
I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.
HELEN KELLER
I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
HELEN KELLER
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, an...
HELEN KELLER