We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

It is my opinion that enjoying yourself in the present and loosening your definition of time slows the aging process.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh.


She’s young and beautiful, which is twice as good as old and ugly. Some people are both, and some people are both.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

If all the centenarians formed their own country, they’d be both the youngest country in the world, and the oldest.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.