It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

I am the instigator of my adversities but at the same time I am the architect of my success.

You wanna respect???- I don't see you to show it... if you show it I will respect you as a character.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

I love the scrapbooks, I have a shelf of scrapbooks fans give me - they're so sweet, so detailed!

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat