The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

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

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.