We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.

There is more in you than you think.

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.