Quotes About Reflection

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

We surround ourselves with people like ourselves. You become what you hang around.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.