Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

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

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

Literature is my Utopia

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.