The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak; Who do not drink their tea, though they always said Tea was such a comfort.