greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life that never realized its full potential.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

A curse could also be likened to a long, evil arm stretched out from the past. It rests upon you with a dark, oppressive force that inhibits the full expression of your personality. You never feel completely free to be yourself. You sense that you have potential within you that is never fully developed. You always expect more of yourself than you are able to achieve.

Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do.

What about unfulfilled potential? That phrase is as negative as the word potential is positive. My friend Florence

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.