Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.

As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death – this is the task of this young generation.

In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Youth is a marvelous garment. How misplaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity, when, as in her own case, one ceases to be une jeune fille un peu folle, and becomes merely a woman, worst of all, a wife. The very young have their troubles, but they have at least a part to play, the part of being very young.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.