What should a man get straight before his number comes up?
I don’t have much philosophy other than Live in the Now. And that’s very difficult to do. Because, first of all, when you’re doing it, you’re unaware of it. It’s the things you don’t do in life, as opposed to the things you do do, that create lingering regrets. Don’t leave something that you really want to do undone. Another one of my mottoes — you learn things from your girlfriends, you know — is this: Don’t waste hate on anything you don’t love. This particular lady once told me, “I never fight with anybody I don’t love.” And you can’t, anyway. How should a man deal with any lingering regrets? There’s no point in overburdening yourself with guilt. The key is to get in the habit of kind of redirecting it. Learn from the regret. Some regrets you can’t recover. I don’t have many of those, but a lot of that’s based on good fortune. I don’t know if you earn good fortune, but I think I’ve been pretty healthy about exploiting it when I had it, not kicking myself in the ass over it. I don’t
