I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I have Asperger’s, I’m on the autism spectrum, so I don’t really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I don’t do research. I never have.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, ‚We’ve got to evacuate. There’s a hurricane’s coming.‘

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.