Quotes About Reflection

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait."

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Evening, and home I go, commuting from a world that won't listen to a world that has heard it a thousand times.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.