I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I’ve done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (…) I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret – as you would think of some one dead you...

Stalin was always exceptional, even from childhood. We have relied on Trotsky’s unrecognizably prejudiced portrait for too long. The truth was different. Trotsky’s view tells us more about his own vanity, snobbery and lack of...

You cannot earn $10 million. Nobody earns millions. You can rob, you can steal, or you can make $10 million in an IPO, but never earn so much. So just forget all this saving and...

My message for all my readers is: Don’t believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don’t believe, that maturity is a goal and an...

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of...

Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chaps’ rightsThen sitting in slippers: then drooling.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.

People beleived that the most devastating part of a war are the corpses with their guts out in the open, the puddles of blood, and all that you can capture at first glance. But sometimes...

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young – and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the...

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose’s childhood, but time is a mother’s enemy.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

‘Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs – they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

See, my aim is not to survivebut to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything...

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.

Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough...

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

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don’t like being told what, when, or how to do something. It’s ironic, then, that many of these same people embrace a system in which there would...

No man knows he is young while he is young.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the...

Extend your “best before” date by living a youthful life.

Our biggest advantage this year is our youth. Our biggest disadvantage this year is our youth. They are a very willing group. We have a lot of great athletes, but a lot have never run...

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way to behave; then he suddenly discovers that, even for a prince,...

Make me young, make me young, make me young!

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

In youth, our blood rises and becomes volatile. Desire, worry, and anxiety increase. External circumstances now direct the rise and fall of emotions. Will and intention become constrained by social conventions. Competition, conflict, and scheming...

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

The current generation of youth knows that Mandela was our president and that he was in jail, but that’s it. They don’t know their own history. We celebrated democracy and the miracle, but the building...

Little girls think it’s necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it’s a shame…I’m all about mystery.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth…

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere… – Pg. 82

…love, all at once and much, much too completely. It’s like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow…

Saki says that youth is like hors d’oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don’t notice it. When you’ve had them, you wish you’d had more hors d’oeuvres.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our...

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

when you’re younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones;when you’re oldit’s justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themandjust aswell.

But flaming youth in all it’s madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It’s loves and hates, its joys and sadness,Are babbled out and soon revealed.

I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or right; you’re just sort of propelled. But once you clear the top, like...

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn’t be spoken aloud when you are happy.