Anne Sullivan

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.