Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

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.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust.

My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

I love and am loved by a better man than he.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

I like to follow my own muse.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe