Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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.

Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.