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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

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.

The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.