As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

You have to ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

I shall hear in heaven.