My blindness is not a tragedy, but an opportunity to see the world in a different way.

The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Love is the most important thing in the world.

The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.