I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.