- Your body gets older and your mind too, when it holds the weight of all these experiences, all these pains, all of the existence’s lassitude – with a man like this can never find the truth. The mind is capable of discovery when it’s young, fresh and innocent, but innocence is not linked to the age. If your mind lives through experiences, it must react to everything – the river, the sick animal, a dead body, poor village people, torturous, and the misery of life – otherwise, it’s already dead. It’s the tradition, the accumulation of experiences, these are the ashes of the memories that age the mind. But the mind that dies every day taking with itself the memories from yesterday, all the joys and all the sadness is of the past - this mind is fresh and innocent and it doesn’t have any age.
- Studies have shown that it takes us about twice as long to solve unfamiliar problems in our sixties as in our twenties, once again illustrating the importance of starting early to achieve greatness.