Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

He had a kind of quietness and calmness and maturity about him that resonated with others and they respected, ... model myself after Mario.

Nothing worth doing's ever easy.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken way unless it is surrendered.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.