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.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

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

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."