As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.