Napoleon vs. Helen Keller

"The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven."

- Milton

"Napoleon and Helen Keller are perfect illustrations of Milton's statement: Napoleon had everything men usually crave -- glory, power, riches -- yet he said at Saint Helena, 'I have never known six happy days in my life'; while Helen Keller -- blind, deaf, dumb -- declared: 'I have found life so beautiful.'

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that as Emerson put it, 'Nothing can bring you  peace but yourself.'"

-Dale Carnegie