If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

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.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

For Breakfast I like my coffee warm and cozy and my eggs funny side up.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.

Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.