Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F Scott Fitzgerald
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Ogden Nash
If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings.
Haruki Murakami
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
Olivia Wilde
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Samuel Ullman
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
Mark Twain
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
(This story appears in the 20 February, 2015 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)