US "author, lecturer".
"She learned to speak and write despite being blind and deaf; wrote "The Story of My Life," 1903."
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or open a new heaven to the human spirit."
"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."
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they've never made me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
