I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

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.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

I am only as good as my children are.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.