Vibrato is the badge of tonal maturity.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.

There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.

There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.

In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.

In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

The fans treated me with a lot of respect, and I played as hard as possible every night. I wanted to win. I'm going to always be a competitor.

Those that reach their goals perish.

So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.