Humility is the main ingredient of maturity.

Service is not the art of getting but it is the art of giving.

Service is not a matter of pleasing anybody but it is a matter of doing what is necessary.

The greatest victory is the triumph over hypocrisy.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.