Biografia

The most common question she was asked during public appearances was, "Do you close your eyes when you sleep?" Her standard reply was, "I don't know. I've never stayed awake long enough to find out!"

She helped promote the use of Braille among blind people.

Had her eyes replaced with glass eyes when she was 30

The Helen Keller Society (American Foundation for the Blind) was, sadly, located in one of the Twin Towers.

When she arrived in Hollywood in the mid 1910s, she befriended "Charles Chaplin," whom was very friendly with her and was her favorite movie star. Photographs were taken with the two and are in print today.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.