23 Quotes by Eric Roth

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people - dance.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

If only one thing had happened differently—but life, being what it is—a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?