[Your curiosity was the characteristic that editors and reporters mentioned more than any other.] I think of The Times reader as curious, as someone who regards life as a continuing education, ... Each reader has a few subjects about which he or she may be passionate, even expert, and a more wide-ranging appetite that can be seduced, surprised, engaged on almost any subject if we present it well.


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HELEN KELLER
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...
HELEN KELLER
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no li...
HELEN KELLER
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an in...
HELEN KELLER
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLER
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
HELEN KELLER
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
HELEN KELLER
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
HELEN KELLER
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
HELEN KELLER
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
HELEN KELLER
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching t...
RIC KELLER
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
HELEN KELLER
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
HELEN KELLER
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a ne...
HELEN KELLER
Food should be fun.
THOMAS KELLER
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
HELEN KELLER
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
HELEN KELLER
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, ther...
HELEN KELLER
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
HELEN KELLER
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if...
HELEN KELLER
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
HELEN KELLER
The highest result of education is tolerance.
HELEN KELLER
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
HELEN KELLER
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
HELEN KELLER
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
HELEN KELLER
Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
HELEN KELLER
The highest result of education is tolerance
HELEN KELLER
Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help...
RIC KELLER
Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the ...
THOMAS KELLER
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell t...
JAMES KELLER
The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.
RIC KELLER
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-g...
HELEN KELLER
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpo...
HELEN KELLER
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other&#...
HELEN KELLER
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the ...
HELEN KELLER
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...
HELEN KELLER
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounde...
HELEN KELLER
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from t...
HELEN KELLER
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
HELEN KELLER
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
HELEN KELLER
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER