It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
| James Lane Allen, Author (1849) |
| Julie Delpy, Actress (1969) |
| Chris Evert, Athlete (1954) |
| Jane Fonda, Actress (1937) |
| Walter Hagen, Athlete (1892) |
| Samuel L. Jackson, Actor (1948) |
| Hu Jintao, Statesman (1942) |
| Eric Johnston, Businessman (1896) |
| Jane Kaczmarek, Actress (1955) |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer (1950) |
| Stella Adler, Actress (1992) |
| Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist (1958) |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author (1940) |
| Frank B. Kellogg, Politician (1937) |
| Albert King, Musician (1992) |

