“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”
“If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.”
“That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope.”
“As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.”
“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”
“This is what growing old is. We think we will learn sanskrit, learn Greek. Instead, what we learn is more than we ever wanted to learn about things we wish we'd never heard of.”