Steve Toltz Quotes

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.

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

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

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

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

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

Love has more depth as you get older.

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

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

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.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

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.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.