Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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.

And try as we might, small magic never seems to win out over giant meat.

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

What a person thinks about determines what he is.

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.

I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office.