Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” —Sydney Harris

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” —Marcus Aurelius

…if thou shalt be afraid not because thou must some time cease to live, but if thou shalt fear never to have begun to live according to nature- then thou wilt be a man worthy of the universe which has produced thee.” - Marcus Aurelius.

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not infrequently found together. - Samuel Eliot Morison.

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body - King Lear.