Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.

I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity.

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sleep.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

If yage were a word that meant “maturity,” then every single woman I’ve dated has been at least twice my yage.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.