The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

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.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

Education is the bane of life, the foundation of society and the liberation of generations.

Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.