Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

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.

Even when life knocks me around, I will not lose hope. For you see, nothing is ever personal Just a chance for me to grow.

A positive attitude can take you to a lot of great places that a professional makeup can't. There is more to life than your physical appearance.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.