If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

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.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.