After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Doing something we do not find difficult or challenging rarely grows us.

As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.