Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
