Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'