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If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he's kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they've been raised away from the poisons of society.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.