Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Don’t live in regret over missed opportunities, for if you do, you will miss even more.

What I mean is, right from that first time, there was
something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to
say: “Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what a
pity we left it so late.