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.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Who, being loved, is poor?

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

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.

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

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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

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 honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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!

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

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

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.

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

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

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

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

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.

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

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

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.

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

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.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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

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

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.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

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

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.

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.

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

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.