During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Literature is my Utopia

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.