Literature is my Utopia

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

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.