On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Maturity,” Bokonontells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.

Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

Always think twice before responding in anger. Words and written communication cannot be taken back. Chances are you’ll feel differently tomorrow.

Once you’ve figured out who you are and whose you are. You will no longer have any desire to hang around people who do not appreciate who you are.