“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.

Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places – as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.