... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.

What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.