I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

How now, wit! Whither wander you?