I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.