The Miracle Worker Quotes

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
― William Gibson, The Miracle Worker: A Play

“At another time she asked,'what is a soul?'
' No one knows,'I replied; 'but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes'...[and] is invisible...'But if I write what my soul thinks,'she said, 'then it will be visible, and the words will be its body.”
― William Gibson, The Miracle Worker: A Play

“She is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside.”
― William Gibson, The Miracle Worker

“She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?”
― William Gibson, The Miracle Worker

“I can't unteach he six years of pity if you can't stand up to one tantrum.”
― William Gibson, The miracle worker: A play in three acts