I don't think I was fundamentally different from what I was before I went to jail, except that in jail I had a lot of time to think about problems and to see the mistakes that we had committed. I came out mature.

Nelson Mandela

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Stevie Wonder

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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Franklin Roosevelt

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Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

Rabindranath Tagore

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In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

Nelson Mandela

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I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable.

James Clerk Maxwell

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