"If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it."

"If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all."

"When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek."

"Might does not make right, it only makes history."

"There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back."

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone."

"No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it."

"If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?"