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Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.