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

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?

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

It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives.

and I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.

Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.

I think as a person, I have a whole bunch of different sides to me.

You need a prostate to understand,” I said.

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.