The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.
It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.
I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.
