Joseph Henry Shorthouse Quotes

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

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

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

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

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

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.

Years are not important, my dear.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

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.

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

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

The older you get, the more you learn.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

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.