“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”

“Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.”

“Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.”