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 surprise.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.