Quotes About Maturity

Insulting people doesn't make you brave, bold, cool or courageous.

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

Making personal attacks or speaking with malicious intention is something that I have always refrained from.

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

You don't need to spoon-feed bowlers at the international level.

Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it. As people get older, they finally give jealousy up, or at least they put it off for as long as possible until there's such incontrovertible evidence

But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent - and I guess some people never were.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

I have detested you long enough. I come to you now as a grown child

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.