Quotes About Reflection

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.