Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

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.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.