When I see teenagers out in public with their families, holding back, refusing to walk with mom and dad, ashamed to be seen as part of a family, I have to admit that I have acted that way myself, at times, with regard to my Christian inheritance. A hapless and mortally embarrassed adolescent lurked behind the sophisticated mask I wrote in my twenties: faith was something for little kids and grandmas, not me.

Youth is wasted on the young.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

As well as walking erect and disguising his tiredness, he also tried to avoid other symptoms of old age: meanness, mistrust, ill temper, resentment, and bad habits such as no longer shaving every day, repeating the same stories over and over, talking about himself, his ailments, or money.

The young soldier was part of the "Baby Bottle Conscription," the boys called up when there were no more men, young or old, to fight the war.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

Character is Power. Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends — there is nothing to compare with it.