When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

Introverts often assume what's inside is visible on the outside. We don't have to invent or fake the emotion; we just need to allow it to be seen!

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Nothing cheers a girl up like SHOPPING!

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.