When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.