Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.