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

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.

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.

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

A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy.

Bryan helped me up.  "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"I shrugged.  "I've never been very athletic.  Not unless you count fencing.""You made fences?

A true love is never defeated.Even when in ashes, it whirls and finds solace with air

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.