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.

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.

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

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

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

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

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

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

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say ‚you know‘ more than 200 times in an interview with the New York ‚Daily News,‘ and on 130 occasions while talking to ‚The New York Times‘ during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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.

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

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

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

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.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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.

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

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.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

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.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

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

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.

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.

Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to ‚Be Prepared‘ to meet them.

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

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.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.