The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

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.

Your universe is not out there. You create it every moment and every day with your thoughts, ideas, perceptions, and imaginations.

Life’s just a sacrifice, a ransomWe pay to Death for Love to save, Which turns to be as great as handsomeTo get a blessing from the grave.

If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.

I'm kind of a private person in a way.