I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Hope is being confident of what we do not see.

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

God’s blessings causes the other person to pay attention to you and favor you

His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.