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

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.

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.

... 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.

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.

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.

Buying is a profound pleasure.