I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

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

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

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 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.