What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.