In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Less opinion, more perspective.

Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.