I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Some guys look better as they get older.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

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

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.