Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

—Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.

—Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.

—Helen Keller

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

—Helen Keller

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

—Helen Keller

There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve.

—Mia Sheridan in Becoming Calder

Kites rise highest against the wind—not with it.

—Winston Churchill

How my achievements mock me!

—William Shakespeare