I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.