Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.