Pastoral Resources

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.