I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.