"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"It is not the eye that sees, but the heart that feels."

"The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot."

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks."

"I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness."