Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

Experience tells me that people's hearts are seldom changed if they are not changed when young. Seldom indeed are men converted when they are old. Habits have deep roots. Sin once allowed to nestle in your bosom will not be turned out at your bidding. Custom becomes second nature, and its chains are not easily broken.

God can use the words of a teenager, the prayer of a senior citizen, or the candid remark of a child to convict you of the need to make changes in your life.

“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.