Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

If there is no door to your dream, create one.

What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

Many patients with cancer are depressed, yet depression is not the cause of cancer.

All I want to do is change the world.

Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

I try to keep that quiet unless it is asked but yeah, I have a girlfriend and she is a great girl

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

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