I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.

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.

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

It’s not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...” I imply with a shrug “...well then you know what they say.”“Nothing hap―”“Quack!

You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.

When you have children, that's when your relationship really gets tested.

If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.

In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.