The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Things must be felt with the heart.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.