Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.