Laurie Helgoe

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.