I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.