There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.