A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.
The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
Most will choose to leave someone who can't bear to see them go.
It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.