If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.

I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one.

Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.

Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.

Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.

Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.

If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

I come from a military family.

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.

When something weighs on your conscience, give it up.