Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life

by Sanford D. Greenberg

So on balance—debits subtracted from assets because this is, after all, a balance sheet? On balance, I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I picked up that line from Lou Gehrig’s famous farewell speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, two years before his death at age thirty-seven of ALS: “For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Same here, Lou.