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.

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

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

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

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

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 good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

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

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

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

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’m a total puritan, but I found Jacques‘ adventures amusing. We couldn’t be further apart. I am a Calvinist toward myself and totally indulgent toward others.

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.

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

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.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

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

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

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

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

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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.

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.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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.

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

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.