There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.