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.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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.
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.
When the apple is ripe it will fall. When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.
When I can look Life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the Truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
