I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

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.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.