When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

One day you gonna find out that you can't shout... nobody does listens to you.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.