We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
Barack Obama
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest of cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit.
Robert Shaffer
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded
W Somerset Maugham
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi