If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

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

She is elegant rather than belle.

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

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...

Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

I made a big mistake of my life.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

The isolation from any whose interests are the same as mine, the constant, inevitable mixing with persons whose influence will tend in the opposite direction-this is a serious drawback.

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother,...

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don’t think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself...

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

I don’t ask myself, Is the life congenial to me? but, Am I fitted for,am I called to, the Ministry?

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

When you want a thing done, ‘Don’t do it yourself’ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of another brother.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet’s.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.