Horace Quotes

I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

I'm happy with the movies I did, and the movies I didn't do.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.'

I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.

In my real life, I see people who are really enjoying their lives - I mean, really enjoying their lives - and they take joy in their daily obligations; they just do. And I believe that at a certain point, you've got to choose to be that way. You choose to approach your life that way. Or it's all kind of a drag until Friday.

Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

If I could travel through time, I wouldn't go back and change anything in my life, because I'm delighted with the way it's turned out.

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

I don't live life with a ton of regrets.

Sacrifice always seems to imply a bitterness attached to it. But I don't feel bitter about the choices I've made. Yes, I sacrifice a job because I made certain family decisions, but I don't regret it.

I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.

Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion.

All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

I choose to see my life moving in different directions, all of them equally good. Some things are even better now than the way they were in my youth.