All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.
Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.