"I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden."

"You can't be a little bit pregnant."

"The chief delight of the senses is in the perception of beauty."

"The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot."

"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it."