Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

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.

I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

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

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

I am too old to think.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

My life is better with every year of living it.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

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.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

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

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.