Zadie Smith Quotes

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

As a millennial in Congress, I believe it's very important that we're educating our colleagues.

For me, politics is personal because it's my family, and just being aware of my thoughts - are my thoughts productive?

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.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

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.

Love has more depth as you get older.

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.

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

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.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

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

Bad Religion's tradition has always been to try and provoke people but hopefully lead them to a better sense of who they are and what they stand for. That's supposed to make them feel better.