Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

Right now is the youngest I’ll ever be, so I suppose I’d better act immature while I still can.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

That's not fair!" Charlotte said."I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.

Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.