Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.

When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.

True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...

During the 24/7 grind of being a carer, it's all to easy to forget the fact that the person you're doing so much for is, and is obliged to be, more resourceful than you in many respects.

autism is more like retina patterns than measles

The value of a person shouldn't be decided by the judgements of other people. Kindness brings out the best in us all.

i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her.

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

If you're weird, it's good to be weird.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.