The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

I am drunk with love and afraid of nothing.I am melting like happiness, enjoying everything.

There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.

I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

We are all eaters of souls.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love.

There's no way up but down.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.