“Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.”
“I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.”
“As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.”
“If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?”
“But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.”
“I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me.”