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

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.

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.

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

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.

What is life, but one long risk?

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.