Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

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

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

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better.

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

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.

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

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 didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

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

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.