My Top 10 Forbes Thoughts on Youth

1. If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must know how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, attitudes, values and fantasies on everyday life.  --Eric Hoffer
2. You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.  --Aristotle  
3. Youth is young life plus curiosity minus understanding.  --Anthony Brooks
4. Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.  --Sholem Asch
5. I would not waste the springtime of my youth in idle dalliance; I would plant rich seeds to blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit when I am old.  --Richard Hillhouse
6. Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.  --Frank Lloyd Wright
7. You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.  --John P. Grier
8. The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty.  --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. Youth is young life plus curiosity minus understanding.  --Anthony Brooks
10. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth’s progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure.... If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time ... to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities-and greater rewards-are almost certain to come to him.  --B.C. Forbes