Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.