"Listening - the rain - it brings out the contours of everything, gives life to a room I can't see. You hear it?...on the roof dripping down the walls on every side. On the right, on the drainpipe, it's drumming with a deeper, steadier sound - - like a timpani - echoing across the room - tells me the room is large - open. You feel it - in your chest? On the left, the rain says...a fire escape, with its own rhythm - ping - ping. Then listen - there..."

"Drena De Niro - Caroline"

"Nathan Lane - Phil Webster"

"Bruce Davison - Dr. Charles Aaron"

"Steven Weber - Duncan Allanbrook"

"Kelly McGillis - Jennie Adamson"

"Val Kilmer - Virgil Adamson"

"Mira Sorvino - Amy Benic"

"Science gave him sight. She gave him vision."

"Only Love Can Bring You To Your Senses."

"Limbo is like New Jersey. You can see all the good stuff, you just have to get there."

"Virgil - look - you have to learn to see - just like you learned to speak. Only this is not like learning a new language - it's like learning language for the first time. Perception - sight - life, is about experience - about reaching out and exploring the world for yourself. It's not enough to just see Virgil—we've got to look as well."

"Amy - when Virgil was very young, he couldn't see those close to him - so he never learned to reach out. Don't expect him to reach out when he's in pain, or confused, or unhappy. If you really care about him you have to just be there for him."

"Hope is like fire, it can keep you warm - or it can burn you."

"When there's something you've adapted to, accepted - you'd just want to change it without even thinking about it?"

"I can tell he's sensing everything about me with a simple touch. He listens to my every word as if it's the only sound on the planet - I feel like even though he can't see me, he knows everything about me. He just moves me - does that sound crazy."

"I've spent the last five years of my adult life with a man who has the emotional content of a soap dish. The only time I saw him cry was doing our tax return three years ago. I need more than that, Betsy. For once in a long, long time I feel like I can breathe again. Just the way he touches me I know I found someone I can connect with."

"I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for."

"Growing up blind - I had two dreams. One was to see. The other - to play for the New York Rangers. After the 'miracle' of my short period of sight - I realize - I'd rather play for the Rangers. It's not that it was so awful - I saw many things - some good, some back some that I'm already forgetting. But I realized that our eyes aren't what make us see. We only live in darkness when we don't look - look at what is genuine about ourselves - genuine about others - you don't need eyes for that."

"I was better off blind. People don't have these expectations of you you can't live up to. You're blind - fine - they deal with it."

"I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I've woken up from a thirty year sleep - and the world's passed me by."

"This is just great - I don't believe this. What's that saying - stop the world I wanna get off."

"Amy. I want the chance to see. The chance to see Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, apples, raisins, a buffalo, a carburetor and the man in the moon. But I would give all that up - just to see this face."

"Just for a second I felt like I could see you - all of you."

"Of course, most people avoid the subject. You tell them you're blind and they act surprised. "You're blind? Really? I didn't know - you hide it so well." And then they wave their hand in front of your face just to make sure."

"The world is invisible to me - with my touch it comes alive. But only one thing at a time. But when it's raining, I feel everything at once. Sometimes, I wish it could rain inside rain all around us."

"I may not have been a lot of places - but I read about things, then make an image up here --(points to his head)--that works for me."

"Some seeing eye dog, more like sleeping eye dog."

"Mr. Sahai. . . light up the darkness."

"[To Michelle] Your world is not black."

"I know now that there is God... He is not in the holy spirit we pray to... He isn't written about in religious texts.... He is someone who is part of our lives... Whom we live for ... Because of whom we live..."

"George, I miss you. I miss you, George."

"Aretha Robinson: Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothin' turn you into no cripple."

"Della Bea Robinson: [about one of Ray's sons] He isn't my gift to you, he's your son."

"The extraordinary life of Ray Charles. A man who fought harder and went further than anyone could imagine."

"The one thing more extraordinary than the music is the man behind it: Ray Charles."

"Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles"

"Sharon Warren - Aretha Robinson"

"Kerry Washington - Della Bea Robinson"

"Regina King - Margie Hendricks"

"Larenz Tate - Quincy Jones"

"[about his love for country music] I love the stories. You know about fallin' in love and have love knock you around, and then the pressures of the world on you so tough, it makes you feel small. You just want to give your soul to God. You might as well, your ass belongs to Him."

"Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun"