That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.