When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.

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.

We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

There is no pain like the pain of transformation.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.