Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.