The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.