For Friends

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

“An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young”

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

“Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.”

“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”

“People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

“You're never too old to become younger”       

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

“Young people need models, not critics”

“If youth knew; if age could.”

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

“Don't waste your youth growing up.”

“Youth has no age.”

“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence”

“To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable”

“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.”

“I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security”

“There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love”

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies”

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.”

 “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.”

 “It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.”

 “Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.”

 “I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

 “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'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people”