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

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

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.

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.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

W- Work of ArtA- AchieverR- ResilientR- RadicalI- IndependentO- OrganizedR- Resourceful

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.