When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.