I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

Donald Trump didn't cause chaos. Chaos caused Trump.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

Be thankful for what you have.Be thankful for what you wish you have.Be thankful for what you are capable of having.

There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother.

If I've got any small role in this matter, it's to say to Scots Americans: under no circumstances make Donald Trump President of the United States of America.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.