„The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.“

— Ernest Hemingway

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„To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin, this old man had perhaps first learned it thoroughly in old age.“
— Martin Buber
„There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children.“
— Cesare Pavese
„When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.“
— Lewis Carroll