I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - (Keller, Helen - Action)

We 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. - (Keller, Helen - Apathy)

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - (Keller, Helen - Attitude)

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. - (Keller, Helen - Blindness)

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. - (Keller, Helen - Blindness)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. - (Keller, Helen - Character)

College isn't the place to go for ideas. - (Keller, Helen - Colleges and Universities)

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - (Keller, Helen - Danger)

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - (Keller, Helen - Desire)

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating. - (Keller, Helen - Disability)

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - (Keller, Helen - Effort)

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. - (Keller, Helen - Eyes)

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - (Keller, Helen - Happiness)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - (Keller, Helen - Heart)

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - (Keller, Helen - Kings)