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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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.

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

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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

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.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

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

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

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

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.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

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.

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.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

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

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.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

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

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

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

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

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

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.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

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

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.

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.

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.