It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Adults are obsolete children.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?