A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

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.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

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

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.