There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness. - Helen Keller

I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same energy loving each other, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” — Helen Keller

People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))