Every American was to become a performing self.

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.

The inner dimension and the hidden time have already been discovered.

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

Air, an undervalued necessity, that earns your gratitude when you inhale it for the last time

ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

God bless the America we are trying to create.

Many littles make a much.

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually