I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.