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.

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

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

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.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

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

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

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

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

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

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

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.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.

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

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.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

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

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.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.