We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

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.

Your tummy, soft aswarm dough. I knead and knead, thenbake it with a nap.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

So I took her back to my place and we did it doggy style, not because we planned it that way, but that's just how she passed out.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

Anger destroys your soul.

Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.