It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself.

A “No Excuses” mindset in your family stems directly from your personal growth. If you are not growing as a person, the first impact will affect your family.

There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

Science always uses metaphor.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.