“If you want to drive ahead, look through the windscreen and drive, not through the rear-view mirror!”

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.”

“If you're looking to take a long, beautiful drive through life, you might not want to take the cynic view.”

“We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

“You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.”

“I was just rather fascinated by certain what seemed to me insoluble paradoxes about reflection, about what it was like to look in one direction and see in another. I was struck by the strange capability we have to look through the front window of a motor car and at the same time look through the driving mirror and not to confuse the view that one saw inside one frame with the view that surrounded it in another frame.”