[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

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.

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

For me, the food is most excited in ['Top Chef Mexico'], I get to try it all. My mouth waters just thinking about it.

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination