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

It’s the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

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.

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.

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

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.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho – woman, boy, always couples, and it’s very standardized.

The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don’t have to come to the net to finish points. That’s the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.

I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn’t we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it’s civil rights. It doesn’t get any better here in Berkeley I’ll tell you that.

Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.

Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.