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

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

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

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

Scouting is a man’s job cut down to a boy’s size.

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

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

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

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

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys’ ambitions.

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

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

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

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

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

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.

I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan’s are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan’s, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

I don’t think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief–if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far … They don’t have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that “real wealth.” It exposes what’s wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific.