It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night - I don't mix protein and carbs.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.

I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.

The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely.

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!

To greet each day ossified

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.

In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.