What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

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.

Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

We are here for the sake of others

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress.

Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like.