I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

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.

Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.

I always knew the woman i wanted to be- I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independant

There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

Do your best. And then let life do the rest.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.