"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."

-- Margaret Mead

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt."

-- Max Lerner

"Children guessed (but only a few) and down they forgot as up they grew..."

-- e.e. cummings

"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."

-- Tom Robbins

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults."

-- Brian Aldiss

"Practice is about opening ourselves so that this little "I" that wants and wants and wants and wants and wants -- that wants the whole world to be its parents, really -- grows up."

-- Charlotte Jodo Beck