At 19, you don't know enough to be a worthwhile author or speaker - you haven't lived enough to find your butthole with two hands and a map, let alone give lessons to your elders.
I should know - at 19, I was a Democrat. It took Reagan to teach me how the world works.
Some 19 year olds are heroes of mine: The next day, January 26 (the temperature was 14 degrees with 24 inches of snow on the ground), the battle at Holtzwihr (France) began with Murphy's unit at an effective strength of 19 out of 128. Murphy sent all of his men to the rear while he took pot-shots at the Germans until out of ammunition. He then proceeded to use an abandoned, burning tank destroyer's .50 caliber machine gun to cut into the German infantry at a distance, including one full squad of German infantry that had crawled in a ditch to within 100 feet of his position. Wounded in the leg during heavy fire, he continued this nearly single-handed battle for almost an hour. His focus on the battle before him stopped only when his telephone line to the artillery fire direction center was cut by either U.S. or German artillery. As his remaining men came forward, he quickly organized them to conduct a counter attack, which ultimately drove the enemy away from Holtzwihr. These actions earned Murphy the Medal of Honor.... He was 19 at the time.
“At 19, you don’t know enough to be a worthwhile author or speaker . . . “
How about this young man o’ God?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlIk4X3EsU&feature=related