YOUTH "Youth is not a period of life, but an attitude of mind, it is an expression of the Will, of the power of the Imagination and of the intensity of Feeling It represents the victory of courage over cowardice, of the spirit of adventure over the temptation of indolence. We do not grow old because we have reached a certain number of years; we grow old only if we give up our ideals. The passing of the years indeed tempt us to give up our high ideals, but the soul prompts otherwise. Prejudice, doubts, fears and hopelessness are the enemies who gradually bear down and turn us to dust before we are dead. He is young who can still be astonished and enthusiastic. He who still, like a child hungry for knowledge, asks; "And then?" He who challenges events - and rejoices in the game of life. You are as young as your faith - as old as your doubts, as young as your hope, as old as your depression. You will stay young as long as your readiness to take a challenge remains receptive to the beautiful, the good and the great; receptive to the message of nature, of your fellow man, of the mysterious. Should your heart one day become corroded by pessimism, eaten away by cynicism, then may god have mercy on your soul - the soul of an old man" Douglas MacArthur [1945]