Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

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

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.