We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

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.

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

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.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

My hair is too fine to bleach. I get so much breakage, it's not worth it to dye it.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.