Adults often treat each other as children, and children as adults.

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

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

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

Newspaper publishers profit greatly from the widespread belief that reading newspapers gives others the impression that one is smart or at least mature.

A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.

Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.

Some lessons are best taught, not by others’ scars, but by our own wounds.

Difficulty’s potential to grow us is not confined to working out.