Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
---Ashton Kutcher

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. ---J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix