Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.