You got barn cats and you want to make them tamed, you need to get them as kittens.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time.

Trials and tribulations only come into your life to test you, so you could make some testimonies out of them.

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

He died fighting for what he believed in.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.