The age

Youth is not a period of time. It is a state of mind, a result of the will, the quality of imagination, a victory of courage over timidity, a taste for the adventure over the love of comfort

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he has deserted his ideal. The years may have wrinkled his skin

but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul. Preoccupations, fears, doubts, and despair are the enemies which slowly bow us toward the earth and turn us into dust before death.

You will remain young as long as you are open to what is beautiful, good and great; receptive to the message of other men and women, of nature and of God.

If one day you should become bitter, pessimistic, and gnawed by despair, may God have mercy on your old man’s soul?

 barcelona 2011 bluebird 64 years