To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

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

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

Things must be felt with the heart.

The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

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 have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.