If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. — Abigail Van Buren. American advice column
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.