"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

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

"I often wonder if the hand of the sculptor is not more expressive than the voice of the singer."

"I am not a little girl anymore. I am a woman, and I have a right to my own life."