The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of read more

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one

You're never too old to grow up.

You're never too old to grow up.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its read more

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone read more

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.