How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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.
Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.