Albert Einstein Quotes

Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

I certainly do recall how I felt when the atomic bombs were used. My brother-in-law was captain of the first minesweeper scheduled into Sasebo Harbor. My brother was a Marine, with a flame thrower, on Okinawa. I'm sure these people would not have lasted in an invasion. It was pretty clear the war would continue, with half a million of our fighting men dead not to say how many Japanese. You know and I know that General [Curtis] LeMay firebombed Tokyo and nobody even mentions the slaughter that happened then.

In the past, science has often been able to provide adequate protection against new weapons it has given into the hands of an aggressor, but it cannot promise such efficient protection against the destructive use of nuclear power

Now we are all sons of bitches.

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.

If I could send a message back to my younger self, it would be: Do not work for the State Department at all.

Looking back, I wonder where my head was at on some of the last few albums, and I know I was just doing what I thought I needed to at the time.