I won't fight you, it looks puerile to me, but i can ignore and forget you till you wonder if you still exist.

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

Yep, I was so mature, I decided I would just have to reward myself by doing the naked lambada with a Federal Agent.

Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

I’m not the same person I was when I wasn’t. I’m different now, in that now I’m drinking coffee.

Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.