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

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.

May every living soul know eternal rest exist.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

Simply put, here amid the kingdoms of this world we have no continuing city. That’s why we dare not become attached to the passing values of any human culture.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.