If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
—Richard Martin Stern (American Mystery Author)
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
—Philibert Joseph Roux (French Surgeon)
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
—George Samuel Clason (American Businessperson)
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
—Marian Wright Edelman (American Civil Regrets Advocate)
Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.
—Marvin J. Ashton (American Mormon Religious Leader)
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
—Edward R. Murrow (American Journalist)
In the end it is about what you want to be, not what you want to have.
—Derek Sivers (American Entrepreneur)
Who are wise in love, love most, say least.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (British Poet)
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires – disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
—Bernie S. Siegel (American Physician, Writer)
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
—Dorothy Thompson (American Journalist)
I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
—Shirley MacLaine (American Actor)