Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

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.

We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.