I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishme….

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life.".

No one ever indoctrinated me..

You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself..

I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile..

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves..

Having your health is having everything in life..

Especially learn how to see..

I learned very soon to get along by myself..

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like..

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being..

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole..

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things..

I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself..

Only one music comes out of me..

No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously..

I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life..

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible..

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought..

I wrote about what I was going through at the time..

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd..