You would be better off standing alone in solitude than to fake your way into standing with millions of negative minds. Peace of mind only lies in one's true identity.

Much of human communication is a monologue delivered to anyone who will listen. A real dialogue allows many to express and has the chance of leading to more discovery.•

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.

He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. [He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.