… literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

More from Helen Keller

• Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
• I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
• It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. On flying around the world