The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

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

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.

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.

When birds eat from your hand, they are letting the whole world know that they trust you.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.