Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.

Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return therefore, everything that you want is already yours. It is simply becoming more aware of what you already possess.

It’s rare to be depressed and be in prime health. Healthy people tend to be happy people.

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

I've done flowers and kicked myself. Flowers are so lame.