You're not too young to taste success, and on the other hand you're not too old either.  Did you know that Emmanuel Conte wrote some philosophical works when he was 74 years old, he did.  At 80 Tennyson wrote his famous Crossing the Bar.  Michelangelo  completed his greatest work when he was 87 years old.  The Apostle John in the Bible was almost 100 years old when he penned the last book of the Bible -- Revelation.  Sure youth has its handicaps and so does age, but not mattering how old you are it all depends upon, well, on what you are on the inside.  It was wise old Solomon who said, "For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he." I'm amazed at everywhere we look we're being told what to think.  We turn on the radio, the television, we go places and hear people talk, the printing press is turning out more and more signs and posters of different kinds influencing our thinking and as a result we a lot of times don't think for ourselves.  If you're an older person you're amazed to see and hear how the world caters to young people -- right?  But if you're young it seems it’s a hard world to break into.  The price of property is constantly getting out of sight and you ask, "How in the world can you buy a car and a house too?" It seems all the positions in the company are already taken; it's a hard world to break into anything -- right?  But I don't care how old or how young you are, you can still be successful.  It depends on you're thinking habits and on what you've already judged to be successful.

All that money didn't make Howard Hughes happy.  And it’s amazing how more and more people with their money are becoming more and more secluded.  J. Paul Getty, reported to be the world's richest man at age 71, was called a solitary billionaire.  He lived alone in a magnificent mansion called Sutton Place in Surrey, England.  A 700-acre estate, on it guards, vicious dogs, steel bars, searchlights, bells and sirens.  There are some things money just can't buy.  Like money can't buy friendship – friendship has to be earned.  Money can't buy a clear conscience either; square dealing is the price for that.  Money can't buy happiness - happiness is a mental attitude.  One can be happy in a cottage just as happy as in a mansion, sometimes even happier.  Money can't buy character.  Character is what you are when you are alone in the dark with yourself and no one else knows what you're doing.  I guess what we're saying is that not mattering how old or how young you are money can't buy success.  I don't care what our society dictates to us and what we have been prone to think all these years.  Success is determined by what you are inside.

Still thinking about money and what it can buy, here's the best advice ever given.  "Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise think about these things." Now that's successful thinking.  That advice is a direct quote from the Bible.  If you're going to be successful you've got to start inside.