Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.