Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

Random Fact

Helen Keller attended several schools for the blind and deaf, including the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts and Radcliffe College, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1904.

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