Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

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.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.