Robert Greene Quotes

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Adults are obsolete children.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.