Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.