When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

Every American was to become a performing self.