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

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

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

The future of wildlife and the habitat that they depend on is being destroyed. It is time to make nature and all the beauty living within it our priority.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.