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.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

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.

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.

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

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

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

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

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

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!

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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

Children are all foreigners.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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.

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

When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

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

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

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

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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.

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

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.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

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

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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