Quotes About Maturity

While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.

As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

I enjoyed throwing the toys out of the pram, although not in a petulant way.

To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.

Since 'Houston Kid,' I've got a pretty good track record. Before that, I wrote some hit songs, but I didn't come into my own until I was about fifty. Before that, I had bursts of talent.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.

I will never demand to be traded. Because if I do, then I'm at fault, I'm the bad guy, I'm the crybaby, I'm immature.

I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we've been together since I was 22.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.