Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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.

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.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

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

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

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.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

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

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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

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

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

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.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

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.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

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

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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

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

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

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

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.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

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.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

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

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

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

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

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.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

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