Answer:
Born of sorrow, grows with age, you need a lot to be a sage. What is it?
Break me and I am better, immediately set and harder to be broken again. What am I?
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
What is black and white and red all over?
I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat and your heart grow cold. I visit the weak but seldom the bold.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.