“As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness ...” — Liz Murray Quote

As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.

History is a part of everyone's life. I highly doubt Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder woke up every day remembering first they were blind. Life is what it is.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.