Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows so does the shore of our ignorance.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again from zero.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

We need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees flowers grass- grows in silence see the stars the moon and the sun how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies it's a funny thing but I'm an exception to that rule.'