“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”

“Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?”

“She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been”

“If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.”

“There are many of them in the world, I think, good men and women with their frail deeds. Wondering what might have been, how things might have danced, if we had only dared to be bright.”

“I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or, if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”