Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

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.

Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everything, you become nothing. -RVM

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

That's more than you know about anything else then.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.