Crisis Quote by Ron Suskind

“There it was: the tactless severity of vital male youth, not a single doubt about his coherence, blind with self-confidence and the virtue of…

— Philip Roth

“The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.”

— Claire Cook

“He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a…

— Jess Walter

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and”

— Robert B. Parker

“As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do…

— Lloyd Alexander

“In some ways, he was just like the rest of us: lonely, ambitious, a son, a father, a lover, never truly content. Where he…

— David A. Goodman

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

“A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he…

— Ron Suskind

“Don’t let him grow up as I did. Sheltered and clothed and fed and cared for, and yet poorer in human qualities than the…

— Harold Robbins

“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They…

— James Freeman Clarke