The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.
In England, nobody's your friend.
To lose is not always failure.
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.