When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.