When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

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.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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

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

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

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

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

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

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.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I was adored once too.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

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

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

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

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.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Children are all foreigners.

If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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

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

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink – boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

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 don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

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

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.