When you stop growing you start dying.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
I do not wish to become a god or a hero. I only wish to become a tree, growing for centuries without harming anyone.
Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.