“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

“How old are you Johnny" she asked.
Sixteen."
And what's that-a boy or a man?"
He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.”

“No don't you know my daddy told me,
Told me right from the start
About youth.
He said no matter how old a man is,
He's partly a boy in his heart.
Yeah, and that's the truth.”

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”

“And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.”

“You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?”

“You know, he cries every time he sees a fossil, because he remembers it when it was running around. Thats how old he is!”

“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”

“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.”