Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. 青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十年後生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，並非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.歲月悠悠，衰弱只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. 無論年屆花甲，抑或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人皆有壹臺天線，只要妳從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號，妳就青春永駐，風華常存。
When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80. 壹旦天線倒塌，銳氣使冰雪覆蓋、玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二八，實已垂垂老矣，然則只要豎起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，妳就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。