We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I've become a lot wiser over the years.
You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Absolutely I view life from a different perspective than I did in my past. It's rewarding, to me, because it actually lets me know that I am growing up.
A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.
Prison matures you.
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.
Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible. It showed me that I was just human. It showed me that I can be back with my ghetto brothers I grew up with and have a good time. It taught me to cool out. It taught me patience. It taught me that I didn't ever want to lose my freedom. It taught me that drugs bring on the devil. It taught me to grow up.
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
I feel a lot older than I am.
I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.
I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
The nature of life is to grow.
We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.
Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.
I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.
I'm a big kid, you know?
Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.
