She’s young and beautiful, which is twice as good as old and ugly. Some people are both, and some people are both.
A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.
The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.
It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.
I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young.
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
How old are you?” “Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.
What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
