A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.

...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

I don't care what you say, so don't even speak.

Journalism is the first draft of history