“I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sist...”

“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...”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”

“A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those...”