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.

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.

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.

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.

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

Ambition is the ignition of a car we call life.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.