“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery.

Literature is my Utopia

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.

I don’t need a man. But I’m happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don’t fold up and die if I don’t have a man around.

I am against the death penalty.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.