Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.