Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20. nobody grows merely by the number of years;we grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
青春不是生命的壹段時間,它是壹種精神狀態。這不是壹個玫瑰色的臉頰,紅色的嘴唇和柔軟的膝蓋。這是壹個意誌的問題,壹種想象的質量,情感的活力;它是生命的深泉的新鮮度。
青春氣貫長虹,勇氣戰勝膽怯,冒險戰勝安逸的欲望。這往往是在壹個60歲的男人,比壹個20歲的男孩。沒有人僅僅增長了數年;不思進取。歲月可以在皮膚上起皺紋,但放棄熱情卻會使靈魂起皺。