The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.