As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. – Helen Keller
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg
Im afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now its tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. – Gordon Strachan