We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

Where you are born, the color of your skin; these are not the only nor are they the best methods to define one's cultural identity, they are simply the only coincidental ways of defining it.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank.