There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because I never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away...

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

I am young, and I am cool, and I want to wear cool clothes!

There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly as it should have been.

We're too young to want to stop living, because after all, we shouldn't stop something we haven't even started.

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

Mission accomplished' I said. Pudge my friend, we are indestructible.

There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and exposed - the perfect environment for a soul-sucking, heart-crushing...

We real cool. We left school. We lurk late. We strike straight. We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz June. We die soon.

Being with boys is more dangerous for me than killing a cricket or having a bird fly into the house.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,But young men think it is, and we were young.

Yeah. They wake up a couple of times in the night, but, you know, that is the ineffable nature of the young! I said. This woman was bound to be impressed by what an engaged big sister I was. Also, my...

We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly.

At twenty - two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.

"Diana: I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad. Anne: You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we...

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible...

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

I was tired of her getting away with being so young.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open

I am life,' the girl said.'What?' he said, startled.'To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I'm life and when you're...