Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.

Mock not at those who are misshapen by nature.

Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh, it is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches.

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.

So much has been given to me, I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

They took away what should have been my eyes, (But I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears). They took away what should have been my tongue, (But I had talked with God when I was young). He would not let them take away my soul- Possessing that, I still possess the whole.

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.