Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

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.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows