Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.

A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Faith and hope mean absolutely nothing where consistent action fails to exist.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.