reflection Quotes

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.