Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.

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.

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.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

I thought she wanted out. We should've brought cuffs and a gag." Clare frowned. "What's wrong with you, Blake? This is a rescue mission, not a kidnapping.

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it hurts

There are more important things to focus on in life than how you look.

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.