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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things.

One does not get better, but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriend's boyfriends -- and he accepts it.

Candid and generous and just, boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected ... For who but learns in riper years, that man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

It is no secret nowadays, particularly to women, that many American males, even those of middle-aged appearance, wearing suits and holding down jobs, are in fact, incredible as it sounds, still small boys inside.

I don't subscribe to the theory that we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

When love matures, it turns into beauty. When the taste of Beauty ripens, it is sweetness. In that experience of sweetness everything appears brilliant and shining. The whole process may be likened to what happens when a flower ultimately becomes a ripe, sweet fruit. Ripeness is all. The Spirit is all sweetness.

All these (scriptural studies) unfold the petals of the heart of man.