“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. Wh...”

“When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambr...”

“Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not a...”

“I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but t...”

“There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. M...”

“Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creati...”

“This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and l...”

“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modif...”

“For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.”

“I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that surv...”

“We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work -...”