"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Mark Twain

"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Mary S. Almanac
 

"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."

Henri Frederic Amiel
 

"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."

Henry David Thoreau

"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Lisa Alther

"The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind."

Maya Angelou

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Isac Asimov

"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way."
 

Mark Twain