“In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.”

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

True invective requires great imagination.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Happiness is speechless.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

Maturity in relationship is knowing that our partners do not belong to us.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.

Maturity is when a person hurts you, and you try to understand their situation & Don’t Hurt them Back!

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.

I’ve seen maturity evolve more through experience than age.

I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn’t the way to do things. I don’t discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color… that’s immature.

If your immature, I’m out the door.