No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.

Creating anything is hard.

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time.