“You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.”
“Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?”
“That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.”
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”
“Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.”
“You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.”