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"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."
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"God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies."

"Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried."

"He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little."

"When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives."

"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."

"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."

"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."

"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."

"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
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"Fear of failure is deceptive.Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.Courage is inceptive.It's where success starts."

"Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain."

"By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too."

"Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates."
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