Quotes About Reflection

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened — I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

We need literature because we wouldn't fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.