Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

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.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.

I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.