To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

Donald Trump didn't cause chaos. Chaos caused Trump.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.

I love to watch movies, go swimming and just chill. Fun stuff relaxes me.

A moment of insight from God is worth more than a lifetime of experience.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.