evidence: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, has been credited with that inspirational quote, but it’s not clear who actually said it. There is evidence that presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II said it in a 1952 speech and that it was used in print in 1947 while promoting a self-help book by Edward Stieglitz, but there is strangely no evidence that it is an Abraham Lincoln quote. [...] At the end of our lives, we won’t be thinking of things like deadlines or phone calls to clients that we meant to make. We will be thinking of the people that we’ve loved and the experiences that we’ve had. Make sure you are including some "real life" in your years.