Mel Rodriguez Quotes

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.

There is no right way to do life.

People often ask whether you'd alter anything about your life. I can honestly say I wouldn't change a thing.

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

I think life is a chain of events.

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.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.