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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.