"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet"

"I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!"

"The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel."

"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."

"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears"

"The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

"When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use."

"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges."

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision."

"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."

"Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained."

"Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people."

"While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done."

"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."

"I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."

"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."