Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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.

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

Drama - what literature does at night.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

What's important is to remain human.

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves.

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!