I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world
People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. Sight is a miraculous instrument offering us all the riches of physical life. But we get nothing in this world without paying for it, and in return for all the benefits that sight brings we are forced to give up others whose existence we don't even suspect. These were the gifts I received in such abundance.