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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.