“I don’t see challenges.  I see opportunities.  They are opportunities to push on and press forward.  You just keep going.

No matter what you encounter in your life, anything that is done here on this earth is um, it’s beautiful.  And so it may not be beautiful in the sense that you can get rid of what the problem is, but that it gives you an opportunity to work it out and learn how to work it out so that when somebody else has the same problem, you know, you can help them out.  And for that reason I say it’s an opportunity.

I’ve learned so much since, since I lost my sight.  I consider myself blessed, in a way, that I see people from the inside to the outside instead of from the outside to the inside.  That’s what I learned when I lost my sight.”