We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

Life is an adventure or nothing

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

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.