When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.