Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

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

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.