A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.