“There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing.”

“Patience is the most important part of the maturing process. It is the highest form of effort in reaching the pinnacle of wisdom.”

“The Pacific Way … is not a thing or state; it is the working out of a process. (But) … the most important things in life are the most difficult to measure … love, peace of mind, creativity, fulfillment, maturity or wisdom, for example.”

“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”

“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.”

“Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.”

“Maturity is knowing that you need to give up things today for greater gains tomorrow.”

“Maybe it’s a mark of a maturing culture, do you think, that secrets aren’t kept, that truth is told, that things are talked out?”

“Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.”

“Adam was created mature, and we are born as babies and developed. However the basic nature that is in us is not one of immaturity, but of one of maturity! The idea of child psychology was totally unknown until a couple of centuries ago. And until that time there was no such thing as the kind of child we have today. But a modern child is a creation of the modern age!”