Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

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 funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.