Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

Nigeria will start exporting cars soon

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.