Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

I'm not young enough to know everything.

It takes a long time to become young.

Youth lives on hopes, old age on remembrance.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.