"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."

"I am not content to be a mere echo. I want to be a voice."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness."

"The future is a world of possibilities."