A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

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

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

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.