There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in wa...ys that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I shou...ld live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When autonomy is respected, the two-year-old does not carry this unfinished task into later stages of growth. In adolescence, the ...youngster will again concentrate on independence, but he won't have to blast the roof off the second time around if it is already well established.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,... The luster of the eye? Is it for beauty to forego her wreath? MYes, but not this alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the t...ime would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It so happened that, a few weeks later, "Old Ernie" [Ernest Hemingway] himself was using my room in New York as a hide-out from li...terary columnists and reporters during one of his rare stopover visits between Africa and Key West. On such all-too-rare occasions he lends an air of virility to my dainty apartment which I miss sorely after he has gone and all the furniture has been repaired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women there do all they ought; The men observe the Rules of Thought;... They love the Good; they worship Truth; They laugh uproariously in youth; (And when they get to feeling old, They up and shoot themselves, I'm told). . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor old Jonathan Bing Went home and addressed a short note to the King:... If you please will excuse me I won't come to tea; For home's the best place for All people like me!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »