Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

Terry Pratchett

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Janet Fitch

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

Dave Eggers

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Peter Berg

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

Jodi Picoult

The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.

David Axelrod

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount, Jr.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Grace Paley

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Gregory Nunn