Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

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.

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

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.