An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

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.

The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

The mind's the standard of the man.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Communication is vital when it comes to excelling in the workplace and in your personal relationships.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.