Daily Inspiration Quote by Len G. Murray

A lawyer admitting he would have taken "one or two different turnings" is a quiet flex in self-skepticism. The line performs modesty while smuggling in authority: only someone who has traveled far enough down a road gets to talk convincingly about alternative exits. Murray doesn’t dramatize regret; he underplays it. That restraint matters. It reads like courtroom temperament applied to autobiography: careful wording, calibrated admission, no messy confession that could be cross-examined.

The conditional "If I was starting off now" sets up a thought experiment rather than a lament. He’s not indicting his past so much as acknowledging the changing rules of the game. For a mid-20th-century professional class figure, the world you entered as a young man (postwar institutions, stable career ladders, deference to expertise) wasn’t the world you’d enter later (more volatility, less patience for gatekeepers, different incentives). The subtext is that success can be real and still be contingent; the path that worked once might be irrational to repeat.

"Probably" is doing heavy lifting. It gives him plausible deniability against hindsight bias: he’s not claiming perfect insight, just a mature suspicion that opportunity costs were paid. "One or two" keeps the counterfactual small enough to be believable, large enough to sting. It’s the kind of line meant for younger listeners: not a sermon about mistakes, but a permission slip to treat life as a series of strategic choices, not a destiny.