May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

- Bob Dylan

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

- Henry Brooks Adams

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

- Sophocles

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

- Jessamyn West

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

- Hosea Ballou

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

- Albert Einstein

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

- Heywood Broun

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

- Howard Mumford Jones

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

- Aristotle