Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Every time you break an agreement you lose self-esteem, self-respect and self-confidence, and you lose other people's trust in you. Every time you keep an agreement you increase these same valuable assets accordingly. It is just the way things are.