“The older we get the less afraid we are.”

“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”

“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”

“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.”

“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.”

“In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”

“When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed!”

“[T]he older I get the more I realise that the world is not as varied as we thought it was when we were young. Most places are much alike.”

“I learned a long time ago that I can't live my life for everybody else. We learn and we grow from our mistakes, and we get older and more mature.”

“The discovery of freedom, for instance, means little if we are not empowered to act, to be free for something, not just from something. As fear falls away, we are less afraid of power's Siamese twin, responsibility.”