I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

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

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

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.

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.