I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

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

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.

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

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 lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

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

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, ‚We’ve got to evacuate. There’s a hurricane’s coming.‘

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

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.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

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

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

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

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

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

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.

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

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

Adults are obsolete children.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

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.

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

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

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

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