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

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

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

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

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.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Every loss of life is terrible.

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

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 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.

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

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

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

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

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

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.

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.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

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.

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.

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

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.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

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

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

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.

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

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

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

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

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

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

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.

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.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

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

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

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

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