We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

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.

Life is an adventure or nothing

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.