It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.